bad to be confident, i don't like self-help, i think all the answers are found in the good book. one self-help book, look at that one. >> pete: a lot of humility that comes with getting older. 3, 4 years ago i was going to write "pete's politically incorrect guide to parenting" but i realized my oldest kid is only 10, i could screw it up. what am i giving advice on parenting i don't know what the outcome is like. wait 20 years and see if my politically incorrect approach worked. >> that's reflective. >> harris: we are getting older we start sentences with i remember. anyway, it's been a really fun first week of january to spend with you guys. happy new year, god bless you, "america reports" now.

>> john: america's crime crisis hits a compton, california bakery. dozens of looters ransacking the building by driving a kia through the locked front doors. >> sandra: taking food, lottery ticket, not even the meat scale was left behind. rubin ramirez, what happened in his community and message to people at home. >> claims this cbp is allowing or encouraging mass release of migrants is just false. >> surprise you to hear the sources say currently they are releasing more than 70% of the migrants crossing every day? >> it would not surprise me at all. i know the data. >> we are at a time of the year

where we are seeing more at the border and it's not unusual. >> the numbers are historic. the numbers are extraordinarily large. >> please, please, please let me in. >> i love you, joe biden. thank you for everything, joe biden. >> john: mixed messaging out of the administration over the border crisis and pressure growing from both sides of the aisle for president biden to do something to secure the border. i'm john roberts in washington. we are almost at the weekend, sandra. >> sandra: good to be with you, john. sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports". much of the focus on migrant encounters in texas, the situation is now getting worse and worse in arizona. fox news cameras capturing video of cartel members cutting a hole in that border fence before ushering through a massive group of migrants. >> john: the chaotic scenes come as homeland security secretary mayorkas who faces impeachment

proceedings next week, admit today bret baier the numbers are "historic" but he blamed congress and climate change for the change. >> sandra: whether a mayorkas impeachment could help fix the crisis? alexis mcadams on new york city suing bus companies for bringing illegal migrants to the big apple. >> john: first, casey stegall is live in eagle pass, texas, after a couple of days with relatively little activity, another large group crossed today. >> that's right, john. we saw that, it happened in a different part of the city. north eagle pass, in a pretty exclusive neighborhood that sits right up against the rio grande river, about 100 or so in size and crossed late morning before being loaded up on to a transfer bus for processing. get you over to the video, lukeville, arizona, where yesterday's breach of the border wall occurred after the hole was cut into the steel fence.

fox cameras capturing a steady stream of migrants crossing through. at one point you can actually see a cartel smuggler recording the action on his cell phone. likely proof that his illegal cargo was delivered. earlier this week, over in webb county, texas, dps involved in yet another high speed chase, involving two juveniles trying to smuggle in five illegal migrants. troopers did a pit maneuver to bring it to a stop, everybody arrested. kinney county texas is nearby and the sheriff told us how many chases his department has handled. >> last year alone, from january 1st to december 31st, i have six full-time deputies. they were involved in over 260 high speed pursuits for that year. almost one a day. >> this is one of the 260 from back in december. the sheriff says they catch about 90% of those pursuits but

he noted the obvious public safety threat to his community and to members of law enforcement when they occur. john. >> john: casey stegall kicking us off in eagle pass, texas. thank you. >> sandra: new york city mayor eric adams has filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen texas bus companies involved in transporting migrants from the border to the big apple. the lawsuit seeks hundreds of millions of dollars shelled out to care for those migrants. alexis mcadams is live in new york city on that. >> you don't have to look far across new york city to see migrant crisis here. you see people on all the street corners and new york says they are running out of places to put them, the mayor is fed up. he's suing the bus companies blaming them and also the governor of texas he says is one big scheme. >> governor abbott's continued use of migrants as political pawns is not only chaotic, and

inhumane, makes clear he puts politics over people. >> the lawsuit there on the screen, new york city suing for more than $700 million from 17 charter bus companies that are bussing migrants in from texas on a weekly basis. mayor adams blaming the bus companies for the massive cost of the migrant crisis, like paying to feed, house and offer services to the migrants who have been coming in for the past two years. new york governor hochul talked moments ago, backing the lawsuit. listen. >> we are collateral damage, we are the ones having to deal with this. the mayor has done an amazing job given what has happened and i think the lawsuit is an important first step. >> according to adams, at least 33,000 migrants and counting bussed into new york city since april 2022. all part of operation lone star, pretty familiar with, right, that's the initiative by texas governor greg abbott and the

texas department of public safety aimed to curb illegal immigration because it's no surprise the border states say they are inundated with daily>> michael: crossings. governor abbott has been firing back saying every migrant bussed or flown to new york city did so voluntarily. so that lawsuit comes just a week after adams had already issued an executive order to curb migrant bus arrivals by limiting their hours, to slow it down. since then, busses have been going to new jersey, you can see in the photos by "the new york post" that the transit cops put the migrants on a train within about 20 minutes and sent them right over to new york city. so, sandra, as we said, the governor of new york talked moments ago about the growing migrant crisis. that's also blaming governor abbott and said they are running out of room and money. sandra. >> sandra: thank you. john. >> john: let's bring in byron york, so byron, as we mentioned

a moment ago impeachment proceedings against the dhs secretary begin next week. mean while with bret baier last night mayorkas is saying it's not just an american problem. >> bret, the numbers are historic. the numbers are extraordinarily large. this is something that is not specific to the united states' southern border. this is something that we are seeing throughout the hemisphere and throughout the world. we have increase in authoritarian regimes. we have more extreme weather events driving people from their homes. >> john: all right, now, first, what he said about the weather, bill melugin has talked to a lot of migrants and not a one of them he told us yesterday has mentioned climate change as a reason why they are trying to get into the united states and secondly, immigration is a problem for other countries, particularly in europe, they are doing something about it and we

are not, byron. >> yeah, president biden also attributes the flow to poverty but it's a fact that millions of people in the poorer parts of the world would indeed like to come to the united states for more money and a better life but that's been true for decades and decades and decades. and it does not account for the fact that joe biden actually opened the door in 2021 and we have seen the number of illegal crossers coming to the united states just skyrocket in the years since then. >> john: and he still refuses to term it a crisis. watch the exchange with bret last night. >> you think it's a crisis now. >> bret, it is a challenge that we have been addressing vigorously with all the tools and resources that we have been provided. we are asking for more tools and resources. >> john: so addressing those two points. first of all, everybody says

it's a crisis except for people in the administration. secondly, all the tools and resources that they are asking for, byron, and yet another huge expenditure that they are begging congress for would do nothing to stem the flow of migration. it would deal with it once they got here to the united states, but would do nothing to stop the pull factor of people coming across the border. >> and that's a point that speaker of the house mike johnson made in a report that they have released just this morning talking about how much more has been spent on the border since joe biden became president but at the same time it's only increased the flow. i'll give you just a few numbers. fiscal year 2021, congress appropriated $4.86 billion for the border. next year, up to $6.23 billion. the next year, $7.15 billion. and in those same years the

number of monthly encounters, illegal crossers who are encountered, crossing into the united states, grew from 163,000 a month in 2021, to 230,000 a month, to 266,000 a month, and now it's at 308,000 a month. so, members of the house, republicans in the house are saying we keep giving more and more and more money and the flow increases, which is, and it's because the administration is using the money to accommodate and to facilitate the flow of illegal crossers into the united states and then their relocation from the border to other parts of the country. it's not being used to actually stop the flow. >> john: so president biden is giving his first campaign speech in the 3:00 hour this afternoon, it's not likely he's going to mention illegal immigration as one of the things he's going to address but one of the things he will do is point out january 6th and donald trump calling him a threat to democracy, it's backed

up by this new biden ad. watch this real quick. >> something dangerous happening in america. there's an extremist movement who does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. >> john: it's no wonder biden wants to talk about president trump and january 6th, he is underwater on so many major issues, including look at this, he's underwater on climate change, he's got to change the subject, byron, no question about that. >> yeah, you know, it's really interesting, biden is kicking off 2024 with a couple of speeches devoted to some of the darkest moments in u.s. history. the speech about january 6th and then his next speech in a few days he's going to go to emmanuel ame church in charleston where a white gunman murdered nine black parishioners in 2019 when biden was vice president, as a matter of fact. so the common thread of all of

these speeches is going to be that donald trump and maga pose an existential danger to the united states. democracy in the united states might come to an end. and i think what you said is exactly right. biden really has little choice but to make this the theme of his campaign because first, majorities republicans and democrats view of him as too old, and disapprove of almost everything he's done in office so he's going to try to make the election about trump. >> john: he's not going to make it about are you better off now than four years ago, i would assume. >> no way. >> john: good to see you. appreciate it, have a good weekend. >> thank you, john. >> john: and byron and everybody else, get your rest this weekend. next week is going to be a big one, bret and martha will host three consecutive nights of town halls live from iowa days before the first votes of 2024 are

coming up. and coming up, nikki haley will join us from the hawk eye state how she is going to prepare for the caucuses that could determine the race. >> sandra: the house is moving forward we have efforts to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress. oversight and judiciary committee say they will be holding mark-ups next week to prepare the resolution for a vote. last month the president's son failed to appear for a closed door deposition related to his overseas business dealings, instead he and his lawyers suggested a public hearing. he is expected to be arraigned in federal court soon on tax charges. >> john: a new year and more violence in the nation's capital. d.c.'s crime crisis spiralling out of control. how does washington turn it around. plus this.

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>> this department and our state and local partners will not rest until every community in our country is safe from the scourge of violent crime. we will evaluate which local initiatives are working, how we can reinforce them, and how we can replicate those successful initiatives in places that have not yet seen the same

improvements. one such place is washington, d.c. >> john: attorney general merrick garland victory lap over a nationwide decline in violent crime. many cities are still dealing with daily carjackings and retail theft. in just minutes, speak with the part owner of a bakery in compton, california, he and his life are out tens of thousands of dollars after a car was smashed into their store to open the doors and a mob of over 100 looters ransacked it earlier this week. first we go to david spunt live at the justice department. what else did the attorney general have to say? >> david: well, john, he talked about violent crime across the country. he did not address washington, d.c. at any length, just saying the department of justice would put out a plan for washington, d.c. later because d.c. has seen a lot of crime. touted cities with lower rates like baltimore and detroit but did note that violent crime is still a problem across the country. >> violent crime is not just a

threat to people's physical safety. it is a threat to their ability to freely go about their daily lives. violent crime isolates people and communities. it deepens the fractures in our public life and when it is not addressed, it can undermine people's trust in the government and in each other. >> david: today the attorney general met with top law enforcement officials to discuss crime, specifically crime rates. baltimore, maryland dropped about 20%. detroit the lowest number of homicides since 1966. however, the window from garland outside in washington, d.c. is setting all kinds of new records, not for the good. motor vehicle thefts in washington, d.c. have specifically increased, somebody already killed someone in just the first couple of days, right now two homicides in d.c., 18

robberies, 72 motor vehicle thefts in just the first five days of january. motor vehicle thefts jumped 82%, from 3700 in 2022 to almost 7,000 last year. officials in d.c. from the city council to the mayor are acutely aware crime has increased significantly in the district of columbia. let me end on this, john. a flyer posted outside a vacant business encouraging people to ransack businesses and take whatever possible. just one example of what we are seeing on the streets of d.c. i asked the attorney general about the department of justice's plan to combat crime, basically told stay tuned. >> john: they are acutely aware, the question is, what are they doing about it. maybe we will finds out in this new year. thank you.

>> sandra: the viral video out of compton, california has been seen by many. a mob of at least 100 looters viciously attacking a neighborhood bakery during a street takeover. security footage capturing looters to use a car to shove through the front doors of the bakery before they rushed in and stuffed their pockets and stole everything in sight. joining us is ruben ramirez, jr., his parents were immigrants and opened it 40 years ago. i know you and your team are trying to rebuild the store to reopen again, i'll ask you about that in a moment, but first, why did this happen? why did those looters do this to your store? >> i have no answer for that. this has never happened to us before. never -- we have seen street takeovers in the area but

nothing like this. so i would not know how to answer that. it's just something that just happened, i don't know. >> sandra: incredible to see this footage of that vehicle shoving its way through the front doors and people pouring in. do you have any idea who these people were? >> no, we went through the videos to see if we recognized anybody. a lot of the kids or people in there have hoods and mask on and stuff, so, and i didn't recognize one person. it's just -- it was heartbreaking to see. >> sandra: how are you doing? i know this is a family business, in your family over 40 years as we mentioned. you noted to some local news outlets how you have been through a lot. 40 years, we survived the rodney king riots, the pandemic and other things have happened to us here. never did we think that this would happen to us. how are you doing? >> we are doing better now because of the community and

because of all the outpour of people calling us and wishing us well, praying with us, and it has just been overwhelming, the support. at first, like anybody, we were angry, then we were sad -- sad when the worst is seeing my parents who built something for over 48 years to almost lose it, you know, because of some, you know, this violence going on right now. these street takeovers in compton have been getting worse and worse and i'm not the only o one frustrated. my neighbors are telling me the same thing, they are with us and they want this to stop. i don't know how you can stop it. >> sandra: do you think any of these people will see justice? >> i hope so, but i'm just -- you know what, i do hope they see justice, but more than anything, i want my business back, i want to be able to serve the community how we have been doing it, i make everybody happy with our food. >> sandra: what do you think is the economic impact of a small

business owner like yourself and your family? how much of a hit do you take as a loss of goods in the store and the amount of time you have to shut and rebuild. >> that's what we have been getting at. we don't know -- every time we think it's -- we are going to need this much to get back on our feet and stuff and then we see something that happened or food that was tainted or we have to throw away because, you know, we don't know who touched it, what was done to it and i don't want to sell it to our customers, our neighbors that come in every day, we are counting about $70,000 worth of damage that was done from all the stealing of lottery tickets to breaking our equipment, taking our cash registers, money in the cash registers, you know, this is right now, these few days, but they are busy for us because we make a special bread, it's a three kings bread the latin community likes to have on

the 6th and we barely started making them again. so, yeah, it's going to be a little devastating. we don't know the effects of how long it's going to take us to recover completely. >> sandra: ruben, small business owners like yourself are what make the communities so special and you are so important to the community. we have the gofundme page, the numbers are climbing, the community is trying to help you rebuild. we know you are partially reopen today, that is amazing in and of itself, ruben and we hope you are able to do so. before you go, when you sit back and look at what happened to your family-owned business and you see this crime happening in american cities coast to coast, to what do you attribute this? why is this happening? one of your neighbors was quoted saying you are used to weekly street takeovers there, car donuts, burnouts. this is happening weekly around

you. to what do you attribute that crime? >> i would not be able to answer that. we need better policies for the community to help us and i would say sometimes -- they don't help. the people that suffer are the hard working people. i had a neighbor on the street takeovers around here lost his work truck so now he can't work. he lost his livelihood because of that. so i hate to say nobody gets punished, right. >> sandra: nobody gets punished for anything, that's a big statement. ruben ramirez, we are -- we support small businesses like yourself, and we want you to be able to get those doors open again and we are so sorry for everything you have gone through. thanks for coming on and telling your story. appreciate your time. >> appreciate you guys. thank you very much. >> john: another $5,000 in the gofundme page in the last little

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>> john: some americans could soon be able to get certain prescriptions at a lower cost. "new york times" reporting the fda is going to allow the state of florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from canada after decades of fierce pushback by u.s. pharmaceutical companies. dr. marc siegel. doc, this goes all the way back to the bush administration. i remember reporting on this as a white house correspondent but the drug companies said no, no, no, no, you can't import drugs from outside the united states, can't be guaranteed of the quality, they may kill you and

now how much of the pharmaceutical recurors come from china and we can't trust canada? >> great place to start, off the table in terms of that argument but not stopping the manufacturers of america, big i lobby in congress to fight this tooth and nail and the canadian government will resist it, too, john, because we have nine times more need in the united states than what the drug supply is in canada. and some of the manufacturers might resist this, too. i would call this a battleground rather than a testing ground. sandra called it a testing ground before i came on. it's a fight. you know, florida has to put in more paperwork, but i like this. i actually think that it puts a look on the larger problem, why are we paying more in the united states for prescription drugs, many which part of them are made here. a lot of the products and the supplies come from elsewhere but

a lot is made here and sold cheaper in canada or in europe, which sets up the european union, sets up a block where they will not take the drug unless it's a cheaper price. big problem in the u.s., pharmacy benefit managers who suck a product out of the middle. price ballooned upwards, i like this and if it goes through in florida they are thinking they could save $150 million in the next year. >> john: you know, i grew up in canada, and like everybody as you go through life, i was prescribed a few prescription drugs during my time there and while some people might disagree, i don't think they had any lingering side effects, i think i turned out ok. i want to ask you about this other story. something very interesting. ozempic flying off the shelves,

people diabetic or obese are taking it, but trying to lose a beer belly or menopause weight, they take it a while and then find out the insurance company will not pay for it, they stop taking it, not only do they gain back most if not all the weight but in some cases they gain back more. what's going on, doc? >> by the way, its proven in several studies announcement journal of pharmacology and therapeutics testing women, they almost gain back all the weight and lily, which puts out one frt weight loss drugs you are talking about, it's a double drug, hits two hormone spots and is really effective, they regain most of the weight but even more disturbingly to me, cholesterol went up, blood pressure went up, risk of heart disease went up.

i'm looking at i have to get the weight off so that my patients have less risk of side effects and i want to prevent weight loss surgery if i can. and the shortage is a huge mess here, john. as you also said, it's a diabetes drug and diabetics cannot get it, and insurance coverage is spotty and fight for approval all the time. so, it's a mess. i would say we need more of the drug out there, but we also need more education on if you get to a place where this drug helps you, why can't you then take it over and not need the drug after a while? why do you have to bounce back to needing the drug? once you eat less you could possibly with education stay there. >> john: a lot of people say when they come off the drug they get ravenous and cannot help themselves, they gorge on food and the weight comes back because it's so powerful in suppressing appetite. great segment, hope you have a great weekend. >> happy new year, john.

good to see you. >> sandra: to you as well, doc. tensions escalating in the middle east, hezbollah threatening response and punishment after the killing of a top commander in beirut. idf is pounding hamas targets in the gaza strip. alex hogan is live in tel aviv. what is israel's vision for the next steps in this war? >> hi, sandra. the defense minister laid out the plan saying israel should not control gaza, it should be up to the right of palestinian bodies but added that israel should retain the right to conduct any kind of military operation on the ground and should also have the right to inspect any goods entering gaza. now, in the last 24 hours, we have seen according to the idf, 100 strikes on specific targets within the gaza strip, and from our live shot location earlier today, we were able to see some of that smoke rising along the strip on the horizon.

along the border in israel, families returned to the festival site to mark three months since the october 7th attacks, including one woman that fox spoke with several months ago when we interviewed her when her little sister was taken. >> i'm still stuck on october 7th, maybe the eight, i can't switch days i cannot turn the page, i can't open the new year. >> meanwhile, tensions flaring once again along the border of israel and lebanon where gallant made a visit to the northern command and a lot of growing concern as foreign leaders flock to the middle east to cool rising tensions. european policy chief is expected to be in lebanon to discuss the ongoing conflict, germany's foreign minister will visit israel on sunday. antony blinken set off on this week-long whirlwind tour of the region which really will include israel and the west bank and growing concerns of how to

protect palestinian civilians caught in the middle of this ongoing conflict. also as we look at the conflict in the north, we heard from nasrallah, speaking out the second time, speaking specifically about the hamas commander killed outside beirut warning if hezbollah does not do something, he says it will lead to further action from israel's behalf. a lot to come out of those conversations. >> sandra: alex hogan live in tel aviv, thank you. >> new york city is a place of rules, a place of law and order. not unlawfulness and disorder. and this is no different. >> john: new york city mayor adams going to new lengths to try to stop the surge of migrants to the big apple. lady gaga's father and restaurant owner joe says

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>> sandra: the migrant cries iis -- mayor adams has warned it will cost the city $12 billion over the next three years, and has already forced the city to slash funding for critical programs for its residents and taxpayers might add. the sanctuary city is suing the bus companies transporting the migrants legally from texas. let's bring in joe germanotta, restaurant owner on new york city's upper west side, also lady gaga's father. good to have you here. >> nice to be here again. >> sandra: we have developed a conversation with you on this, and this is something you have

witnessed happening over a period of time and it greatly affects you and your life and your business and your family. >> yes. >> sandra: what the heck is going on here? why would you go after the bus companies? how about the federal government for allowing these migrants to flow illegally into the country and how is it the bus company should be held accountable? aren't they just part of a legal transaction in texas? >> well, yeah, they bought a bus ticket -- the governor bought a bus ticket, and sent them to new york city and they get here and we are not prepared at all, all right. the mayor didn't think this thing through. we have a shelter on our block, young women and children there, now they are cycling them in and out every 30 to 60 days, right. the kids are out playing on the streets, they don't have the proper clothing, they are freezing, right, and you know, every day it's -- it's a new

wrinkle, right. and if you take a look at what's going on in the street, i mean, there's still motor bikes everywhere. >> sandra: everywhere. you took some pictures you shared with us. i've stopped police and asked them and they said the migrants have them, they are using them to deliver food or uber eats, and in many cases the police officers i spoke to said in most cases they are not registered vehicles. >> they are not. >> sandra: and many cases they are stolen vehicles and he said we are told not to do anything about it because there are so many. >> what i understand they are doing, delivering for the grubhub and doordash, etc., it's not a legal transaction because they are not citizens, they shouldn't be employed without the proper papers and what i understand they are doing, they are leasing the, i guess the phone or whatever from a current delivery, legal delivery driver, and they pay them a certain

amount per month, and then they take their off shifts. >> sandra: but still, this is where the governor, kathy hochul stands on this and the right to shelter laws impacting the migrants. listen. >> you can't stop the flow of individuals once they are in this country, you can't. so, if they say their destination is new york city, they cannot be held in new jersey. my view is they are saying they want to go to new york city because of the right to shelter. >> sandra: my mind is kind of blown. i don't know what anybody is doing about this. we had an alderman from the city of chicago on this program yesterday and you know, great guy, and a real conversation with us about it and we respect him for that. but when i said you guys -- you are a democrat, you labelled yourself a sanctuary city as well. you said all are welcome. his response was yeah, but we didn't anticipate this. >> obviously. obviously. they didn't plan. nobody planned for this.

and as a result, you know, the taxpayers, we are going to end up paying for it, the store owners are suffering from it, right, you know, even the traffic to new york city, i've seen a lot of international come in, people, you know, visitors come into the restaurant. >> sandra: interesting. >> but i'm not seeing the surrounding area, the suburbs, they are not coming to town and now in front of the shelter on my block is a police car there 24 hours a day. two police officers sitting in the car and i understand the reason for them being there is so busses don't come in and drop off additional migrants. where our tax dollars are going, protecting the shelter. >> sandra: while more and more are fleeing the city, taxpayers. >> right, exactly. >> sandra: and the suburbs, some are now thriving outside the city. >> i understand somebody pitched a tent in central park.

>> sandra: no end in sight, no plan. appreciate you joining us. stuck with me once when you said you had to do it all over again, you wouldn't raise your daughters here. >> no, i wouldn't, i wouldn't now. in fact, i told both of my girls, home school. am>> sandra: joe, thanks for coming back. john. >> john: the blade runner out of jail on parole more than ten years after he was convicted of killing his girlfriend, disgraced olympian oscar pistorius, where he is now. >> sandra: and nancy pelosi, sky high return on her stock portfolio. do she and other lawmakers have an unfair advantage in this market? we'll be joined, next. really loe to find some relief. cosentyx works for me. cosentyx helps real people get real relief from the symptoms of psoriatic arthritis or psoriasis. serious allergic reactions, severe skin reactions that look like eczema, and an increased risk of infections, some fatal, have occurred.

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